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1. xpaqui+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-05-29 09:40:12
Can you explain how not fact checking implies picking a side?
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2. rootlo+T2[view] [source] 2020-05-29 10:11:19
>>xpaqui+(OP)
No fact check = implicit trust
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3. moojd+Pp[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-29 13:21:24
>>rootlo+T2
Not fact checking is only picking a side once you have decided to fact check. Before all of this twitter could claim to be a medium of communication. There isn't implicit trust that something is true because it is written on paper, posted on a billboard, or appears on TV. By choosing to mark tweets as true or false, they are no longer just a medium of communication. We can now imply that if twitter does not mark a tweet as false, they are endorsing that tweet as true.
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